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• Alexis Sharkey: Instagram influencer found dead in Texas after going missing

  30-11-2020 20:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  26-year-old had been missing since Friday evening 
  
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• Taco Bell offers menu classic for $1 - and it noticeably lacks any lettuce

  28-07-2026 21:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Last week, the beloved chain ran its $1 Enchirito deal - another menu item that does not contain lettuce
  
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• Europe wildfires latest: French evacuation may be largest peacetime exodus as new heatwave hits Bordeaux

  28-07-2026 21:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Macron says France facing its most difficult situation since Second World War
  
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• Ebay agrees to pay couple $50 million after they were sent cockroaches and bloody pig mask

  28-07-2026 21:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  The couple reported experiencing cyberstalking, death threats, and in-person surveillance by former eBay workers
  
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• White House aide who made $100K betting on Trump speeches is out of his government job

  28-07-2026 21:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator no longer works in government after he was placed on unpaid leave over alleged insider trading
  
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• Lindsey Graham funeral updates: Trump again shares senator’s phone number as president remembers a ‘tough cookie’

  28-07-2026 20:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  During his eulogy, Trump also said that Graham ‘never saw a war he didn’t like’
  
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• Lindsey Graham funeral updates: Trump honors ‘tough cookie’ senator who never saw a ‘war he didn’t like’

  28-07-2026 20:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump remembered Graham as ‘a respected statesman’ and a ‘true American original’
  
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• Trump has launched a new ‘Red Scare’ in the US – a favorite tactic of the right

  28-07-2026 20:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anti-communism has huge appeal within American political culture – particularly for the generation of voters who, like Trump, grew up on a diet of cold war propaganda
  
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• Jailhouse calls reveal Georgia school shooter’s obsession with online notoriety after attack

  28-07-2026 20:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors played clips of the recorded conversations between Colt Gray and his mother during the teenager's sentencing hearing Tuesday
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky hails ‘good meeting’ with Trump as presidents discuss Patriot missile production

  28-07-2026 20:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Zelensky was expected to press the US for urgently needed air defence support
  
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• Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke in the US. But experts say he’s ignoring the bigger problem

  28-07-2026 20:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Wildfires are burning across several countries, causing evacuations and devastating communities
  
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• Lindsey Graham funeral updates: Trump set to give eulogy as dignitaries fill National Cathedral for memorial

  28-07-2026 20:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  This morning, Trump called into Fox News and said that Graham had ‘never seen a war he didn’t like’
  
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• Georgia man fights off shark in Florida waters to save his pregnant fiancée

  28-07-2026 20:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jacorey High, 21, punched the four-foot animal in the nose after it bit his foot twice and repeatedly lunged at him as he tried to escape the water
  
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• Florida executes former police officer in first of two executions Tuesday

  28-07-2026 20:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  James Aren Duckett, 68, was pronounced dead at 1:19 pm following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison
  
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• Trump uses breaks between Zelensky, Israel and Graham’s funeral to flood Truth Social with manic posts

  28-07-2026 20:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Truth Social storm included jabs at Elizabeth Warren, boasts about Trump’s numbers on TikTok and familiar, baseless claims about the ‘rigged’ 2020 election
  
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• Longtime Homeland Security official resigns over Trump’s ‘war on immigrants’

  28-07-2026 19:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Data chief Marc Rosenblum say he’s ‘thrilled’ to leave the Trump administration behind after more than a decade at the agency
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump and Netanyahu hold ‘positive and productive’ talks in first visit since joint strikes began

  28-07-2026 19:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump is expected to make a final decision on the ceasefire in Iran following his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
  
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• Chicago-area contractor goes missing in sewer as he is swept away during heavy storms

  28-07-2026 19:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Chicago-area contractor working in a sewer pipe was swept away by stormwaters Monday afternoon and still has not been found.
  
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• Iran executes two more men six months on from anti-government protests

  28-07-2026 19:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  It has been reported that two men were executed on Tuesday
  
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• Treasury Secretary parrots Elon Musk’s claim that Americans won’t need to save for retirement because of AI’s abundance

  28-07-2026 19:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Scott Bessent echoed Elon Musk’s claims that Americans won’t need to save for retirement thanks to the “abundance of AI”.
  
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• Tornado stayed on the ground for over 20 minutes as it carved a path of destruction through Wisconsin

  28-07-2026 18:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  The twister was spun off by a large storm system that moved through the Great Lakes, fueled by a buildup of heat and humidity
  
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• Suspect who killed wife and their six kids revealed to be American Heart Association VP who lost his job weeks earlier

  28-07-2026 18:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The family’s pets also died from fire and smoke exposure
  
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• Newsom trolls Trump over his decade-long promise of a new healthcare plan

  28-07-2026 18:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  The president has been promising to usher in a new healthcare plan since 2015
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Israel’s Netanyahu leaves the White House after first visit since bombing campaign started

  28-07-2026 18:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump is expected to make a final decision on the ceasefire in Iran after his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
  
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• Kentucky’s Democratic governor calls for Mitch McConnell to reveal health status or resign

  28-07-2026 18:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  In a second letter to McConnell, Beshear asked the Kentucky Republican senator to directly and verbally address constituents
  
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• ‘I can taste smoke’: On the frontlines of France’s wildfire crisis as thousands forced to flee homes

  28-07-2026 18:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  As raging wildfires continue to consume parts of France, local communities have mobilised to minimise the destruction.
  
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• Defendant in Salman Rushdie stabbing declines to testify in terrorism trial

  28-07-2026 18:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  The man on trial in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie has chosen not to testify or call any witnesses in the federal terrorism case
  
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• Longtime AP bureau chief Andy Lippman, who led coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial, dies at 78

  28-07-2026 18:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Andy Lippman, a former Los Angeles bureau chief for The Associated Press, has died at 78
  
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• Sitting congresswoman Lauren Boebert serves as stand-in host on Matt Gaetz’s OAN show in rare move

  28-07-2026 18:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  MAGA Colorado representative takes the chair on conservative news channel to sound the alarm over election security, discuss radical Islam with Rob Schneider and champion a reported surge in church attendance
  
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• 40% of Americans are buying fewer fruits and vegetables during cyclospora outbreak

  28-07-2026 18:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 16,000 cases of the parasitic illness that causes severe dehydration and explosive diarrhea have been reported
  
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